Shivamogga: Areca plantation burnt into ashes
More than Rs 25 lakh worth loss incurred
Shivamogga, Jan 07: An areca plantation burnt into ashes when it caught fire accidentally at Veerapura village of Agrahara hobli in Thirthahalli taluk on Monday.
The incident happened in the plantation belonging to Hoovamma. As soon as the news spread, locals and fire brigade tried their level best to douse the fire.
But thousands of areca saplings were burnt into ashes in the fire. It is estimated that areca saplings worth more than Rs 25 lakh were damaged. A case was registered at Malur police station.
The areca plantation was developed on an area of 3.25 acre of land around four years ago. Total 1200 areca samplings and banana plantation was raised. Drip irrigation facility was made pending lakhs of rupees and a pipeline was laid for water supply. Sprinklers and pipeline was also gutted in the fire incident.
“We have developed the plantation spending lakhs of rupees with hard work. Now the entire plantation was gutted in the fire. The government and the concerned authorities should come to our rescue and help us with suitable compensation”, Hoovamma family members demanded.
MLA Araga Jnanendra, former MLA Kimmane Rathnakar, DCC Bank president RM Manjunath Gowda and other elected representatives, Tahsildar, and horticulture department officials visited the place and reviewed the situation. They assured of getting the compensation from the government.
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Notices issued to Himachal conductor, driver for anti-Rahul Gandhi audio clip playing in govt bus
Shimla, Nov 30: After finding itself in soup over a CID enquiry on "missing samosas", the Himachal Pradesh government is again in a tight spot for issuing notices to a state roadways conductor and driver after an audio clip with defamatory remarks against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was allegedly played in their bus.
A man in his complaint to the Chief Minister's Office said defamatory words were used against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and other leaders in an audio clip which was played in the Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) bus plying between Shimla and Sanjauli on November 5.
In a letter to the conductor and driver of the bus on November 25, the HRTC sought explanation from them. The letter went viral on the internet.
Talking to reporters on Friday, HRTC Managing Director Rohan Chand Thakur said a routine complaint was received from a customer after which a fact finding enquiry was initiated. The enquiry was closed as the allegations were found baseless.
However, the wording of the explanation sought could have been better and the officers have been verbally conveyed to improve in the coming times, he added.
The defamatory words were allegedly used in a debate being played in the audio clip.
Reacting sharply to the letter, BJP MLA from Dharamshala, Sudhir Sharma, said the government should appoint marshals to stop audios being played in buses.
"Such decisions of the government are damaging the reputation of the state government as well as the state," he added.
Earlier, the state CID department had ordered an internal enquiry on the samosas which were brought for Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu during a function and by mistake were served to the his security staff. A senior police official had termed the faux pas as an anti-CID and ant-Government act.
